At the recent Jump Festa event, it was confirmed that a TV anime adaptation of Tadahiro Miura’s Yuragisou no Yuuna-san (Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs) manga is in production and slated to air in Summer 2018. The anime’s official website has opened, revealing the first visual, cast, staff and promotional video.
The Yuragisou no Yuuna-san TV Anime is set to premiere in the Summer 2018 anime season, which generally begins in July.
The leading members of the anime’s cast has been revealed and consists of:
- Yuuki Ono (Taiga Kagami in Kuroko’s Basketball) will lead the cast as Kogarashi Fuyuzora
- Miyuri Shimabukuro (Debut Role) as Yuuna Yunohana
- Rie Takahashi (Megumin from KonoSuba) voicing as Chisaki Miyazaki
- Eri Suzuki (Chinatsu Kuramoto from Flying Witch) as Sagiri Ameno
The leading members of the production staff for the Yuragisou no Yuuna-san anime were revealed and consists of:
- Director: Tsuyoshi Nagasawa (Haiyore! Nyaruko-san, Kyo no Gononi)
- Series Composer: Hideaki Koyasu (GJ Club, Sansha Sanyou)
- Anime Character Designer: Kyoko Taketani (Pandora Hearts and To Love-Ru Animation Director)
- Music Composer: Tomoki Kikuya (Hidamari Sketch, Nisekoi)
- Sound Director: Jin Aketagawa (Hanasaku Iroha, Re:ZERO)
- Animation Studio: Xebec (To LOVE-Ru, Haiyore! Nyaruko-san)
The first promotional video of the anime has been released giving us a first look at the upcoming series, which also introduces to us the main characters and cast:
Prior to 2018 Jump Festa, there were hints that an anime adaptation of the series was in production, as well as a major announcement. The official website of Jump Festa lists additional copyright information for Yuragisou no Yuuna-san‘s stage event, featuring a production committee. The significance of this is that production committees are created to handle the production of anime. In addition, of all the series listings Yuragisou no Yuuna-san is the only one that does not have an anime adaptation.
Yuragisou no Yuuna-san (Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs) is an ecchi, comedy manga written and illustrated by Tadahiro Miura. The series launched in earlier 2016 under Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. To date a total of 8 compiled volumes have been released, the latest on November 2nd.
Here is a synopsis of the series from MAL:
Fuyuzora Kogarashi has the ability to see supernatural, and has been possessed by ghosts since he was a kid. This has caused a lot of trouble in his life, but now he has learned to fight back against the evil spirits! Unfortunately, he’s now also very poor, homeless, and hoping for a happier, more normal, high school life. In his search for housing, he’s introduced to a very cheap boarding house called Yuragisou, which was formerly a popular hot springs inn. It’s so cheap because the house is haunted by the spirit of a high school student whose corpse was found there.Fuyuzora Kogarashi has the ability to see supernatural, and has been possessed by ghosts since he was a kid. This has caused a lot of trouble in his life, but now he has learned to fight back against the evil spirits! Unfortunately, he’s now also very poor, homeless, and hoping for a happier, more normal, high school life. In his search for housing, he’s introduced to a very cheap boarding house called Yuragisou, which was formerly a popular hot springs inn. It’s so cheap because the house is haunted by the spirit of a high school student whose corpse was found there.
Kogarashi doesn’t think this is going to be a problem for him, and the rest of the house’s tenants appear to be sexy women. While relaxing in the hot springs, though, he finds there is an issue with his ghost-banishing plan; Yuragisou’s ghost is a 16-year-old girl named Yuna, who lives in his room. Kogarashi has no desire to hurt a ghost girl, and instead he ends up agreeing to help her to figure out her unfinished business. That way, she can move onto the afterlife before turning evil and falling into hell. Once it is clear that he is fine with Yuna, the other tenants reveal their own supernatural secrets—his life in Yuragisou is going to be far from ordinary!
A TV anime adaptation of the Yuragisou no Yuuna-san manga has been confirmed and is set to air in the Summer 2018 anime season. Further details about the anime will be revealed in the upcoming months.
You can visit the anime’s website here: http://yuragisou.com/
And follow their Twitter: @yuragisou_anime
“Yuragisou no Yuuna-san”, “Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs”, images, video, and all associated brands and titles © 2017 Tadahiro Miura, Shueisha, Xebec, and the Yuragisou no Yuuna-san Production Committee